Shape cutting machine



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Patented Feb. .8, 193s UNITED. armies PA'IF.

Nr ll.oi-rice SHAPE comme MACHINE out' A. schatz, waterloo', Iowa l Application February 14, 193e, serials. 63,921 1o claims. (ci. zee-z3) rection, or containing angles in the directions of the cuts.

Another object of my improvements is to include other means adapted when certain elements are properly related with each other to produce arcuate cuts, or true circular cuts through the the material along lines in any direction or when material, or also to sever partly straight or arcuate including angles. Another object of my improvements is to associate certain elements ofthe machine releasably with a power prime niover, vand in providing extra elements to coact withvthe rst mentioned elements and adapted to permit the machine to be likewise actuated by manual means. I

Another object of my improvements is to so adjustablyA mount the cutting device relatively to the machine as to cause it to lcut a plate not only to produce a desired contour for'a production but to produce a'beveled edge thereon.,

opposite spaced bearings n and z2 in an alinea' casing or housing 1 as a continuation thereof, to receive a.l main power shaft 2 'whichis threaded along most of its length. This shaft, as also a.

longitudinal fixed rack-.bar 8, are disposed between the walls I.

l provided to rotate the shaft 2, such as an electric IL have accomplished all of these objects by the j means and mechanisms in association, and' in actual reduction to successful practice, which are hereinafter described, lclaimed and illustrated in drawings. i

' Fig.f1 is a perspective Fig. 2 isa side elevation of thejmachine with partsl removed, sectioned or broken away.

. Fig. 3 is a top planof the machine withparts sectioned or broken away. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the torch carrier.- Fig. 541s a section of the intermediate gears, on the broken line 5--5 pf Fig. 2. Fig. 6 is a cross section of thetorch operating means on the broken line 6-6 -of Fig. 2. Fig. '7 is a section across the clamping halfnuts on the line 1-1 of Fig; 2. Fig. 8 is a plan of the line guide plate, and Fig. 9 is an enlargedcross section of the clamping means connecting the blowpipe adjustably to its supporting arm. Y

Referring to said Fig. 1, the vmain frame of my machine has cross connected parallel forward and rear-walls I, having an end bearing 2a', and

view of my yimproved differential sheaves I4 or the end of the friction-disk hub and a device I8 fixed on the shaft I6.

or other motor I0, whose shaft carries a pair of differential sheaves II and I2 thereon, carrying alternately a 'driving belt vII! to one or the other Power producing means are "12o I5 on a rotary shaft `It which traverses a truncated conical housing 8 and its prolonged central cylindrical extension 9 in-a ball bearing I1. 'The wider end of the housing 8 opens into the casing 1 heretofore mentioned, the latter having a step-bearing to seat the inner end of said shaft I6. Upon the shaft lI6 is slidinglymounted a friction disk 2| non-rotatable thereon, and having a hub embraced (see, also Fig. 2) by the furcations 20 of an arm 35 and pivoted upon said hub. 'I'he arm 35 is medially pivoted on a fixed stem 34, has oneend pivoted to the housing 8, traversing an opening therein to project outwardly, the inner extremity of the crank being -shaped'with a cam part 31 which engages the otherwise free end of said arm 35. A coiled compression spring I9 is seated upon said shaft I6 and engaged between stop disk Referring to said Fig.' 3, a circular friction disk 26 is'mounted on a sleeve 25 slidablyjnon-rotatably seated upon Ysaid n 25 has an annular bearing trough therearound to admit an endrof a iixed pin 21 on a screwpower shaft 2, and theV sleeve and an operating crank 38 A sleeve 28 mounted ona short threaded shaft 24 v opposite bearings whose extremities are seated in of the shaft proof the housing 1, with one end 1- jecting and carrying a hand-wheel 30. A stud with terminal index finger 29 is fixed on the sleeve 28,and, as shown in Fig. 8, this stud and index 29 are placed with the stud traversing an opening (not shown)y in the housing 1, with the index 29 above the guide-plate 86 secured on the housing 1, so that the index may point to any of graduations 88, near a table 81. l.

When the cam 31 engages the forked arm -35 with the disk 2I disengaged from the ldisk or friction roller 26, and the shaft 2 not driven.

` When the crank 38 is'swung back oppositely the handle 1b, in reversing the motor I8 by means shown in Fig. 2, the spring I8 is compressedv riage.

reversing the ro- 2. When the friction disks shaft 2 may be rotated by I thereon. `It will be seen that the speed of rotation of the shaft 2 may be varied in a well known manner by using the,

hand-wheel 38 to rotate its shaft 24 to shift the screw-sleeve 28 to and fro on the shaft 2 when the friction disks are in contact.

A carriage 3 is traversed by' latter shifting the n'ally when the reversing device the carriage. ber 54, having a partition 54a the shaft 2, the

carriage to and fro longitudil is used to return An elongated arm or housing memproviding an end chamber 58, is mounted to swing upon the carriage 3 by a pin and slot connection 5 and 4 therewith and to project forwardly from the carshaft 2 in mesh therewith when rotated by thepower motor I8 longitudinally. Whenl `it A pair of half-nuts are mounted on the the shaft is being to shift the carriage 2 andrits movable arm along the frameI is desired toshift the carriage t manually, the half-nuts may be thrown out of mesh with the thread of the shaft 2 by use of the shaft 6I and rock-handle 68 and other elements like those shown in described specifically later. may be shifted by the use of Figs. v2 and '1 to be' Then the carriage 3 a hand-wheel 33 (Fig. 3) mounted in the carriage 3 and having a gear 32 always meshing with the rack 8. t

The arm 54 has a longitudinal rack 55 on its top engageable by a pinion. 58

having a handwheel 58 mounted on a carrier frame 56 mounted for movement longitudinally on said arm. As

shown in Fig. 2, the

frame 56 has a bracketed and communicating chamb'er 13 thereon, also shown in more detail in Fig. tubular member 14.

6, and carrying a depending As shown in Fig. 6, a worm gear 83 is mounted in the chamber y13 and has a 15 traversing it and depending shaft extending below it. As

shown in Fig. 4, a. bifurcated friction member 18 15 and has a socket part with 11 engaging it for thrusting it the shaft to tend of the shaft 15 which in the member 14 frictionally embraces the shaft a threaded screw into contact with to take up for vibration or jar latter supports adjustably a holder 18 for an oxyacetylene torch 82 or other cutting or deiineating means includes a double 18-11,vwith clamping screws embracing the member 15 and appliance. This socket clamp device as at 18, one socket the other removably, slidably and adjustably clamping the parts of an arm 18. This split arm braces the outwardly directed on a braces the body of the torch 82 The armmember 54 at one end empair of lugs 88a clamping sleeve 88 which adjustably emis longitudinally traversed by rotary shafts 44 and 45. In the end chamf ber 53 of said arm 54 the shaft 44 carries a spaced pairV of spur gears 48 and 41 of different diameters, and the shaft v48 carries slidably thereon a sleeve 58 having ahandle 5I forked and projectingthrough a slot 52 in the fork embracing the sleeve the chamber 83', loosely,v and the sleevehaving the pair of. end pinions 48 and,"

thereon of different diameters to have them4 moved into meshalternately withthe gears' 48 and 41. The shaft 44 is driven as 2 by a set of gears, one being a nxed on said shaft 44 and in mesh gear 42 on a short shaft 4| which carries a gear 48 in mesh with another shownin Fig. bevel gear 43 with a bevel bevel bevelgear 3 8 on the power shaft 2. When the handle 5I is shifted either way, the shaft 45 is ro tted at a speed varying according to which ones of the pairs of gears on the shafts 44 and 45 are engaged. The set of bevel gears above described is also shown in Fig. 5 in cross section except the gear device 68 and 6I indicated in part in Fig. 1.

Referring now to said Fig. 6, there is mounted ing As the torch `82 is supported hingedly in the clamp 88 adjustably'relatively to the arm 18, it may be adjusted inclinedly to cut the plate with a bevel edge of a desired angularity. y

Referring to Fig. '1, a half nut assemblage as shown in Fig. 2, and as indicated in said Figs. l and 3 in part, may be u sed in mesh with the shaft 44 when the machine motor as at I8, but when it is desired the machine manually, the nut halves 18 and 18a are separated and out of mesh with the shaft 44 by the following means. By means of screws 12, inwardly spaced, the facing gibs 1I are secured to the wall ofthe carrier 56. These gibs clamp vbetween them andetheir inner flanges a circular plate or disk 84. Outside the carrier 58 a hub 83 with a handle traversing' a bearing in the wall of the carrier and the disk 64 is ilxed on its inner end. As shown in Fig. 2, the disk 84 has opposite eccentrically positioned arcuate slots 85` into which extend pins 68 fixed on the abutted portions 81 or shanks of the half-nuts 18 and 18a. When the hub 63 is rockedin one direction to unmesh the half-nuts 18 and 18a from the shaft 44, to permit of manual rotation of said shaft when the friction disks 2| and 28 are separated. and the first-mentioned half-nuts are unmeshed from the shaft 2, the hand-wheel 3| may be employed for manual operation of the entire machine. As shown in Fig. 7, a handled wheel 83 with handle 63a maybe used to actuate the half-nuts 18 and 18a. The eccentric slots 85 and pins 88 therein thus cause the half-nuts to move to and from the shaft 44, or in a like way to actuate the half-l nuts indicated in Fig. 3 at 8|.

It will be seen that to cause the torch 82 to cut in a straight. line through a plate supported' beneath it, by either prime motor I8 or by manual power, the hand-wheel' 38, when the friction disks are engaged and driven by a when the shaft 2 is to be not rotated manually, is used to position tance radially from produce the required vtorch cutting ina straight line or parallel to -the frame I is achieved, by using the at an angle to the frame I. by' either power or hand 38 having a slidingnt on '.Io cut the plate the shaft 2 rotating means, the miter gear By this means the desired portion in part or all around,

with a desired radius of curvature and length is driven by a prime to drive.

82 has a short shaft 88 the annular disk 28 at a dis- 43. Also in Fig. 5 is a sectional view of the half-nut -motor I8, or

when the friction um shown in Fig. 5

:same speed as the shaft 2 is rotated together with the gearing to rotate the shaft 44 at the allthese gears are of the same size. The half-nuts I- 18a being meshed with the shaft M, the carrier 58 is moved out along the track I carrying the torch' 82l at an angle to its parallel course longitudinally relatlveto the direction relative to .togi

vcularly to cut in a plate in an frame I. When the half-nutsI-la are disengaged, the carrier 56 maybe likewise shifted along the arm 54 by use ofthe hand-wheel 58. The arm 5I being mounted to swing on the mem'- ber 3 by the pin or bolt connections 5 traveling in the circular slot I, the arm may be positioned rotation being thus .imparted to the shaft 45, worm gearing 15 and the torch 82 (see Fig. the torch 82 arcuately or cirarc or circle.

It will' be seen, that the torch 82 may be adangl to permit the torch while cutting a plate e the plate a'beveled edge of the required slope.

It is to be understood that mechanical equivof the sub-combe employed in any binations. of elements of my invention, and that the stunt.l are covered by my appended claims.

l. In a shaping machine ofthe character de` scribed, an elongated track, a carriage movable gitudinally therealong, side said arm, an adjusting gear-wheel mounted on said chamber and meshed with said rack to travel with the frame therealong, a casing on and in communication spindle mounted in said casing,

a manually rotatable carriage and in mesh gear-wheelseated on the with said rack, a threaded therealong, a carrier chamber adjacent said arm and adjustably movable therealong, a torch-burner, neansfor movably supporting said burner removably and adjustably on said chamber,

to the member 3,v so that 5| Vmay bey used to 'engage the i to swing in a carrier chamber alongwith said chamber, a rotatable.

, said arm having a rack said arm, said carriage .and the means for rotating said shaft, for propelling the burner'along desired lines of use, and means for varying the speed of rotation of'said shaft.

In the combination device of said claim 2,

power-driven means, and a-'make and break conmeans operatively engaged between said burner, Y

nection between said power-driven means and# said threaded shaft.

4. In a shape cutting machine, in combination, a basal thereon, an arm member terminally bracketed on said tool, operated upon withuninterrupted changes o-f position of thetool as adjusted, curvate.

therealong'an arm mounted on and included in said support, a carriage movable vto and fro' power means for variably changing the speed of rotation of the rst mentioned shaft.

t 6. In a shapecutting machine, in combination, a single primermover, a single friction disk rotated thereby, a, frictionroller engaging said disk and movable produce a beveled edge of a desired angle of Obliquity.

7. In a shape cutting machine, in combinaat diiierent speeds,- a carriage' operatively engaged with said shaft to move to and fro therealong, an arm mounted on said carriage to`swing in a plane, a tool supporter movable in one plane along said arm, a threaded shaft mounted on said arm for shifting said supporter in one plane,

fro radially across the friction-disk.

4 single speed changing gearing disassociably connected between said shafts, a cutting tool supported on said supporter adiustably for employment indifferent planes, a guiding` tablet. an index member movable' thereover andK manually operable means for shifting the index member across the tablet and loosely engaged with the speedchanging gearing, for changing the speed of rotation of the first mentioned shaft.

v8. Qin a shape cutting machine, in. combina,- tion, .a basal support, a carriage movable to and fro thereon, an arm member terminally bracketed on the carriage swingably and for to and fro movements thereon, a tool mounted swingably on the arm member, adjustably tiltable, slidably adjustable relative thereto and for up and down changes of position, means for releasably securing the toolin said adjusted positions, power driven mechanism including devices mounted on said basal support, carriage and arm member in disconnectible associated connections with said tool as adjusted,for moving the tool, whereby materials may be operated upon with uninterruptedV changes of position of the tool, as adjusted, whether in lines straight, angular, curvate, or any combination thereof, a motor for driving the power driven mechanism, an axially adjustable resiliently cntrolledfriction disk driven thereby, the power driven mechanism including a rotatable power shaft, a frictionwheel moted slidably thereonk non-rotatably and norma y contacting with the friction-disk, a threadd counter-shaft adjacent to the powershaft, manually operable means for rotating the counter-shaft, the friction-wheel having a hub provided with a circumferential groove. a nut mounted on-the threaded part ofthe counter-shaft and having a radial pin seated in said groove, an indicator finger on said nut. and a graduated scale traversed by said finger when said nut and friction-wheel are shifted to and 9. In a shape cutting machine, in combination, a basal frame, a rptatablethreaded shaft mounted upon said frame, means .for manually rotating said shaft, a carriage mounted for to and. fro movements along said frame, a pair of mated separably assembled half-nuts mounted on said frame for to and fro movements and having interior threading to ilt removably on the thread of said shaft, manually operable means loosely half-nuts and adapted to be shifted to place l mesh with said shaft, an armpivotally mounted at one end on said carriage, a threaded shaft rotatably mounted along said arm, operative connections between said threaded shafts including -ed on said support, a

' a spindle mounted in said bearing,

- said arm, clash-gearing onv said gearing to mate with aio'aseel manually operable make and break means therefor, a chamber mounted for to and iro movements along said arm, a second pair of mated separably assembled half-nuts mounted on said chamber for -to and fro movements and having interior threading to nt removably 'on of said arm shaft, manually operable means loosely connected to said last-mentioned halfnuts and adapted to be shifted to place them in' mesh with the thread of the arm shaft or out of mesh therewith, a tool device mounted movably on said chamber, operative connections between said tool ldevice, said arm shaft, lastmentioned half-nuts` andsaid frame shaft, a manually operable gear mounted on said chamber engaging 'said rack for to, and fro translations of the chamber along said arm, a rack on the basalv frame' and a manually. operable gear mounted on said carriage forto and fro translations of the carriage along said frame.

10. In a shaping` machine of the" character described, a basal support having a fixed rack extended therealong,'a carriage movably mountmanually rotatable gearwheel mounted on the carriage and meshed with the teeth of said rack,4 an arm having one end positioned upon said carriage for rocking movements thereon, and including-a rack therealong, a carrier chamber adjacent said arm to move longitudinally therealong, a gear-wheel mounted rack, a casing rigid with said chamber, communicating therewith andfhaving a spindle-bearing,

ing means in said chamber and casing for rotating said spindle, braking means movably mounted on the casing for releasably engaging the spindle, means mounted on said arm and carriage for lshifting the said carrier chamber to and fro along the arm, power means, a threaded shaft mounted rotatably onsaid basal support, said power means being operatively engaged and associated with said shaft to rotate it and at various speeds of rotation,.said power-shaft being releasably connected to said carriage, a rotatable shaft mounted longitudinally along said arm chamber to shift the chamber to and fro along arm, a manuallyl controllable gearing pair intermediate the clashthe same alternately to varythe.. speed of rotation of the rotatable shaft on said arm, a cutting device, and lockably jointed members connected for relative adjustments between said spindle and said cutting device.

O'IIO A. SCHOITZ.

meshed gearthe thread mesh with the second and seated in 'said 

